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Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
Vision Changes in Middle Adulthood
-presbyopiaold eyes
-changes in eye (aging of the eye)
-difficulties in dim light
-reduced color discriminations
-glaucoma risk- important to get their annua

CHFD 2200 Test 2 Notes/ Study Guide
9/7/12
Chapter 4 : Physical Development in Infancy & Toddlerhood
When a baby is born, they do an apgar test (something that they asses about the babys
functions; looking for activity level etc.)
Do it at one and five mi

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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
Physical Development & Adolescence/Emerging Adulthood:
- VO2 max
o VO2 max: maximum amount of oxygen in milliliters, one can use in one
minute per kilogram of body weight
o At highest

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Chapter 8: Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
Eriksons Theory for Early Childhood:
- Initiative v. guilt
- Initiative: having a sense of purposefulness, what you do matters, eagerness and
confidence to try new things
- Guilt: child b

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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Physical Development in Early Childhood:
- Body growth slows
- Shape becomes more streamlined
- By age 6, our heads and brains are 95% of their size
Skeletal Growth:
- Growth of skeleto

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Racism and White Privilege
Discrimination in Criminal Justice System:
- Blacks =33% of those arrested for serious FBI index crimes, yet they make up
46% of inmates in states and federal prisons
- Another those convicted of violent offences
o Whites: 9

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Heterosexism & Transgender Oppression
What are Stereotypes About Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual People?
- Flamboyant flaunting their sexuality
- More sexual
- Deviant/abnormal/something bad happened to them
- Men are more effeminate/women are more butch
- Sinf

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Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking:
- Critical thinking: thinking that helps you decide whether you should believe
some claim, and how strongly you should believe it
- Example:
o Women should stay home with children because this is the tradition
o H

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Common Shock What is it?
(from Weingarten)
Common Shock:
- Common shock: our reactions to disturbing societal events or observations or to
disturbing social interactions that involve others or ourselves
- Includes severe physiological, psychological

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Classism
Definitions:
- Income: the amount of money, from all sources, that comes into your household
(could be a family or individual) in a 1-year period
- Wealth: the amount of assets that you have accumulated over time, minus
liabilities (e.g. sto

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Ageism & Adultism
Definitions:
- Ageism: process of systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people
because they are old; old people are characterized in negative ways
- Adultism: behaviors and attitudes based on the assumption that adul

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Ableism
(Understand the term: Temporarily able-bodied)
History of Treatment of People with Disabilities:
- Pre-18th Century: perceived through religious lens; unchangeable condition that
resulted from sin
- 19th century: those with disabilities consid

CHFD 3930E NOTES pt 7
Figure 13.13 p.584
53% of adults over 65 are married and 9% are divorced
50% that are married and 11% that are divorced in the general population
older adults are far less likely to have married, a reflection of the fact that most
p